ADVICE BY WIRELESS
DOCTORS ON AORANGI CALL FROM FANNING ISLAND A wireless call for medical advice and possibly medical assistance was received from Fanning Island by the Royal Mail liner Aorangi when the vessel was near the equator, en route from Auckland to Vancouver. The message stated that a woman on the island was about to give birth to a child and oring to the doctor on the island having died two days previously no other person on the island was skilled in midwifery. The message was reported to Dr. E. O'Neill, the Aorangi's doctor, and Dr. P. S. Foster, of Christchurch, who was a passenger on board. After the two doctors had conferred the advice required was wirelessed to the island. Lat£r in the voyage further wireless advice was received that the birth had been a success and that mother and child were doing well.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 8
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